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Ken Griffin is making a bold call on artificial intelligence. The Citadel founder says an AI system at his firm compressed eight weeks of doctoral-level research into just two hours, and he now believes that kind of capability will ignite a golden age of entrepreneurship, putting institutional-grade tools into the hands of individual founders at a scale we've never seen before.
Shifting to energy, Prime Infra CEO Guillaume Lucci is pushing back on the renewables-only narrative as the Philippines grapples with a nationwide energy crisis. Lucci argues the country needs power of all sorts, framing reliability and affordability not as competing priorities but as inseparable ones, a pragmatic stance that carries real weight for infrastructure investment across Southeast Asia.
And on the lottery wire, an Illinois ticket holder has claimed a one billion dollar Powerball jackpot, the largest prize of two thousand twenty six so far, topping an eight hundred million dollar Mega Millions win out of Florida just last month. After federal and state taxes, the lump sum take-home will land considerably south of that headline number, as it always does.
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